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Dirk Jan Koekkoek

VP, DMARC, Mimecast

Dirk Jan Koekkoek is the founder of several successful companies, including the Hilversum cybersecurity company DMARC Analyzer. This company was recently taken over by security specialist Mimecast. Koekkoek now works at Mimecast as VP DMARC.

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Danielle Papadakis

Product Manager Mimecast Brand Exploit Protect, Mimecast

Danielle holds a BSc in computer science from the Interdisciplinary Center University in Herzliya, Israel. With expertise in cyber security, threat intelligence, and deep insight into customer facing phishing, Danielle had a major role in Segasec's development and acquisition.

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Ian Lowe

Product Marketing Management Director, HID Global

Ian is Product Marketing Director for HID SAFE and is passionate about marketing all things related to Identity, Cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud, and Digital transformation. In his 19-year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based identity and security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today.

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Dora Gomez

President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.

Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance. Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.

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Jason Pfeiffer

VP of Product Management, ReliaQuest

Jason Pfeiffer, VP of Product Management for ReliaQuest, is responsible for the development and execution of their go-to-market strategy. Prior to leading ReliaQuest's Product Management team, Jason joined RQ in 2016, leading the Incident Response team and soon after was responsible for the entire Security Operations organization. Prior to joining ReliaQuest, Jason spent his career building and leading world-class cyber security programs for global businesses, including Lockheed Martin and PwC. He earned his B.S. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and his M.S. in Technology Management from RPI. Jason also holds several industry certifications including the CISSP, ISSAP, CISM and C/EH, and in 2015 he was awarded the Senior Information Security Professional of the Year by ISC2.

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Jeff Horne

CSO, Ordr

Jeff Horne is currently the CSO at Ordr where he is responsible for security direction both within Ordr products and internal security. Prior to Ordr Jeff was the VP of Information Security for Optiv where he was responsible for all Security Operations, Governance Risk and Compliance, Endpoint, Internal Incident Response, Physical Security, and Employee Security Awareness groups. Before Optiv Jeff was the Senior Director of Information Security for SpaceX where he was responsible for the overall security strategy of SpaceX and managing the Information Security, Compliance (ITAR), Security Operations, and Physical Security groups. Previous to SpaceX Jeff was the Vice President of R&D and Chief Architect for Accuvant LABS where he managed teams of researchers and consultants specializing in reverse engineering, malicious code, incident response, breach analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Prior to Accuvant Jeff was the Director of Threat Research at Webroot Software where he led several teams of malware researchers, reverse engineers, and a development organization specializing in creating anti-malware functionality and detection signatures for all Webroot products. Jeff began his career as a Vulnerability Researcher at Internet Security Systems where he was responsible for vulnerability discovery, exploit creation, IDS evasion research, and behavioral detection of malware. Jeff is well known for his insight in interviews for numerous news channels and publications, speaking roles at various security conferences, as well as authoring several vulnerability disclosures and patents.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Mike Lynch

Senior Sales Engineer, Core Security a HelpSystems Company

Mike Lynch has more than 25 years of experience in technical sales, product development, technical support, and customer success. Currently, he is a Senior Sales Engineer for Core Security, a HelpSystems Company, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM), Vulnerability Management and Network Threat Detection.

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Mohamad Amin Hasbini

Head of Research Center (META), Kaspersky

Dr. Amin Hasbini joined Kaspersky in 2013 as a Senior Researcher for the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT). Dr. Amin now heads that same research center for the META region. He is responsible for Kaspersky's expert positioning, research expansion, and knowledge maturity in four regional offices.

Prior to joining Kaspersky, Amin was a senior consultant at Deloitte & Touche Middle East; and before that a senior security Engineer at DataConsult in Lebanon.

Dr. Hasbini has worked on numerous large-scale defensive infrastructure, industrial and consulting projects for government entities, banks, service providers, Oil & Gas companies, and others. He has also taught security courses in forensics, malware analysis and ethical hacking.

Dr. Amin Hasbini holds a PHD in Smart Cities Information Security from Brunel University (London). He is specialized in wide scale cyber-defense and anti-APT tools and techniques, has a number of publications on advanced malware operations and smart cities security, presented at more than 100 conferences worldwide and has received numerous accolades.

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Ahmad Ashraf

Senior Security Consultant, Kaspersky

Ahmad Ashraf joined Kaspersky in 2014 as a Senior Security Consultant, Ahmad is responsible for technical consultations about evolving cyber threat landscape, Kaspersky enterprise solutions and threat intelligence services.

Prior to joining Kaspersky , Ahmad was a Security Consultant at SecureMisr. Ahmad led infrastructure security assessments and penetration testing projects for government entities, banks and service providers in the Middle East, Africa and the GCC region.

Ahmad holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, a professional diploma in cyber security from Information Technology Institute "ITI" , and professional certifications from SANS institute and Cisco like GIAC Certified Incident Handler "GCIH", GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester "GWAPT", GIAC Security Essentials "GSEC" and Cisco Certified Network Associate "CCNA".

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Maher Yamout

Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky

Maher is a Senior Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky. He supports clients in analyzing cyber risks and helps to expose advanced persistent threats targeting the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Maher has a background in cyber security, digital forensics & incident response, with 16 years' experience supporting clients across multiple verticals.

Maher holds a degree in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Intelligence Studies. Maher holds multiple certificates from GIAC, ISC2 and others.

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Walton Stephens

Third-Party Risk Consultant, OneTrust Vendorpedia

Walton Stephens serves as a Third-Party Risk Consultant for OneTrust Vendorpedia - a purpose-built software designed to operationalize third-party risk management. In his role, Stephens advises companies throughout their third-party risk management implementations to help meet requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG, GDPR and CCPA). Stephens works with clients to centralize their third-party information across business units, assess risks and performance, and monitor threats throughout the entire third-party relationship, from onboarding to offboarding.

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Matthew Rose

Director of Application Security Strategy

Matt has over 18 years of software development, sales engineering management and consulting experience. During this time, Matt has helped some of the largest organizations in the world in a variety of industries, regions, and technical environments implement secure software development life cycles utilizing static analysis. Matt's extensive background in application security, object-oriented programming, multi-tier architecture design/implementation, and internet/intranet development has been key to many speaking engagements for organizations like OWASP, ISSA, and ISACA.

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Glenn Maiden

Director of Threat Intelligence, Fortiguard Labs Australia

Glenn works at Fortiguard Labs, heading up Threat Intelligence operations for Australia. FortiGuard Labs build the security intelligence that underpin advanced security technologies like AI, antivirus , intrusion prevention, and email & web security. Glenn works closely Fortinet front & back office teams, the Australian Cyber Organisations, CERTs, partners, and customers to build resilient defence systems via intelligence led security fabrics. Glenn has degrees in Business (Management) and Science (ICT); and diplomas in Security Risk Management & Project Management. Glenn is married with two daughters and a son, and spends his free time on his farm near Canberra.

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Corne Mare

Director of Security Solutions, Fortinet Australia

Corne has more than 15 years experience in network security and delivering cyber-resilient solutions. He has a focus on hybrid cloud environments and artificial intelligence to ensure organisations are enabled while also safeguarding their data and applications.

In his role as Director of Security Solutions, Corne acts as the evangelist for Fortinet activities across Australia and the advanced technology that underpins its success. His role is to provide leadership and strategy for technical, pre-sales and support initiatives. He works closely with partners and customers to understand their business drivers and risk posture and to reduce their risk to an acceptable level.

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Jamie French

Director of Strategy & Portfolio, Unisys

Jamie French, Director of Strategy and Portfolio for Unisys Security Solutions is a seasoned information security leader and practitioner with over 25 years' experience. Throughout his career, Jamie has worked with every major market vertical globally holding a variety of roles focused in the realm of security ranging from SOC Analyst, Solution Architect, Technical Pre-Sales, Standards and Enablement, Research and Development, Product and Solution Management, Risk/Technical/Strategic Consulting , IT Security Auditor, Advisory Board Member, Strategist, Practitioner, Educator, Mentor, and Leader.

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Clifford Shier

Managing Principal, Unisys

Over 25 years of Clifford Shier's career have been in IT Leadership roles (CIO/CISO/CTO).   Mr. Shier has extensive experience in collaborative partnering to deliver sustainable results for market leading Fortune and Critical Infrastructure companies in both the Private and Public Sector.  He has led numerous business transformation and high growth initiatives resulting in significant measurable gains in performance, profitability and competitiveness.  As Trusted Executive Advisor and IT/Business Strategist to Unisys clients globally, Mr. Shier brings expertise to deliver on the promise of sustainable and secure Digital Transformation.

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JP Cavanna

Industry Director & Lead Cyber Security Strategist and Evangelist, UK and EMEA, Unisys

JP Cavanna is a passionate cyber security leader with a career that spans 17 years. He is currently an Industry Director and lead cyber security strategist and evangelist for the UK and EMEA at Unisys.

JP started his career in cyber security in digital forensics with the Metropolitan Police Special Branch in London, before moving to the private sector in 2009. Since then he has held several director positions building and managing cyber professional services businesses in large UK and global organisations across a diverse range of industry sectors. Consequently, he has deep experience in helping clients to create resilient security environments.

Prior to joining Unisys, JP was responsible for building a global client-facing cyber security business for Lloyd's Register (LR) from scratch. Having built the capability he focussed on raising LR's cyber profile in the shipping and energy markets through presentations at conferences, public symposia as well as media interviews and participation in specialist panels.

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Mark McIntyre

Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Mark McIntyre is a Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Mark works with the US government, NATO, allied governments, and the larger defense contractor ecosystem, helping them transform their missions and businesses while moving securely to the Cloud. Mark supports CISOs and their teams with cybersecurity reviews and helps them understand Microsoft's perspectives on the evolving cyber threat landscape and how Microsoft defends its enterprise, employees and users around the world. Mark is based in Redmond, WA.

Before joining CSG, Mark ran Microsoft's Government Security Program, Microsoft's global trust and transparency initiative for national governments. Mark also previously ran Microsoft's Security Cooperation Program, and the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) initiative, through which Microsoft partnered with international law enforcement agencies to combat the online sexual exploitation of children.

Mark joined Microsoft in June, 2007, after 11 years in the US government working on information assurance, counterterrorism and regional security issues. Mark has an MA from the University of Washington, a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and a certificate in Korean language from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He also holds CISSP and CCSP designations from ICS2.

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Sudhir Mehta

Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy, Unisys

Sudhir Mehta is the Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy wherein he leads and executes our strategies across products and applications, partnering with Technology product owners, Enterprise Solutions and Unisys Federal to achieve our defined business outcomes.

Sudhir is an accomplished leader with deep global experience in product management, managed security services, infrastructure transformation, SaaS and public cloud (including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform). Most recently he was responsible for Symantec's Cloud Strategy with SaaS Products and Partner Integrations, leading the acceleration of Symantec's Security SaaS solutions. At Symantec he also directed product management for Global Systems Integrators and Norton products.

Prior to Symantec, Sudhir held several leadership roles with HP and Nokia in which he managed product P&L, drove large services businesses, established partner programs and mentored and grew teams.

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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